newid on linux...

Hello,I'm working on a linux grid currently managed and maintained by HP, however, I couldn't help notice the use of newid to elevate user privileges, I don't seem to be able to find this anywhere online, and the newid is installed by an RPM on RHEL5/x86_64 ...

My question is, where can I obtain that package for i386, and it would be awesome if we could some how get to the source code of it...